Tiger Woods is officially back to being shit

Tiger Woods has dropped out of golf’s top 100 for the first time since 1996.

The 14-time major champion was ranked 225th on 29 September 1996, but claimed his first PGA Tour win at the Las Vegas International the following week and rose to 75th in the world.

The 39-year-old, who is on a self-imposed break from the sport, went on to spend a record 683 weeks as world number one and clinched an unbeaten 79 PGA Tour titles.

Woods has not competed since the Farmers Insurance Open in February, an event he withdrew from because of a back injury. That followed a round of 82 in the Phoenix Open in January – his worst round as a professional.

Woods's chances of playing the Masters in April are thought to be "50-50", according to close friend Notah Begay.

Why doesn't he just retire ?
He has more than enough money for the white meat trash he genetically craves.

Extremely odd...
Here he was, top of the sport for years - perhaps considered one of the greatest golfers ever to be, amongst only a few of his peers.

And than the scandal.
Stepped away [PR strategy] for a short time.

Returned - hasn't even been the shadow of himself for a couple of years now.
Psychological, a few minor physical ailments, etc.
Falls behind the pack through many tournaments.....in some instances he hasn't even made the cut.

It's not as if he's an old cvnt, waiting to join the seniors circuit either.

All the pundits say he will bounce back [from years back] - but he hasn't. Not close to his old form.

Woods gave us many years of fantastic displays of Golf ability and sportsmanship, but always when the prospect of his matching or beating the record set by Jack Nicklaus there was the unspoken caveat "if he stays healthy".

Tigers' powerful, explosive Drives etc. were always going to be a problem - stored up over time; most human bodies are simply not made to accommodate those forces long term.

Now 24 Handicappers or worse creep out of the rough and smugly say "I knew he couldn't do it".

I genuinely think that the scandal hit him hard mentally...... at the end of the day the difference between the greats and the also rans is the top three inches and the heart.

I agree Bob (strange I know) he was a control freak and he psyched everybody else out...but that was always going to end with these young guys coming through who are pretty tough mentally for their age...add to that his knee and back problems that he was probably covering for longer than he let on...and he is stuffed...what does that show...that Jack Nicklaus was one hell of a golfer...and he didn't have to compete against the quality that Tiger has had to.

Still, it's not the same without him...He was the one athlete who came along and blew the whole fooking world away...

Much like Gretzky, when I heard of some of the stories in the media, I could hardly believe it...In hockey, we had a youngster that fooking near scored 100 goals in a single season...Unheard of...And if he didn't get over 200 points a season, it was almost a disappointment...Guys that got him in their hockey pools automatically won, so they had to count him as two players to make the betting pools fair...Can you fooking imagine it?...(But he still wasn't the best...Heh...That was Bobby Orr)

And then comes Tiger...Now, golf is far more popular worldwide than hockey, I would assume...And here is this kid, out of nowhere, winning damned near every tournament he entered...Fooking unheard of...Un-fooking-believable...Arguably, never had a golfer before him won so constantly...I mean, for fooks sake, if he came even second, it was nearly a collapse...Heh...

He was the only athlete I remember seeing and saying "That kid is a billion dollars"...The only one...

What a draw he was...And still is...Forget the fooked up arrogant side, or whatever else...

Tiger started tinkering with his swing. When he injured his left knee I believe it was his game took on a subsequent forced swing approach to his game.

His mental approach was affected by his diminished abilities to do what he was able to do in the past.

He's soon forty years old...that's not overthehill, but in golf terms its unlikely that his skill sets will recover to their once pristine form.

Wife problems, multiple Charlie Sheen type escapades and dabbing into illegal substances have all been part of the declining package that was once the greatest golfer in the world. Its to bad, he had all the tools, but in the end his dad was right,"If you marry you'll never live up to your potential."

I miss Tiger, but then I miss Babe Ruth and I never saw the Babe play...